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Ligue Magnus
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Ligue Magnus is the current name for the top mens division of the French ice hockey pyramid, established in 1906. Unusually, the entire division bears the name of a person, Frenchman, the league actually took its name from its pre-existing championship trophy, the Magnus Cup, in 2004. From the 2016–17 season, the league is known as Saxoprint Ligue Magnus, due to a sponsorship deal with Saxoprint. 12 teams play a 44-game regular season, the schedule is fully balanced and there are no geographic conferences. The top 8 teams qualify for the Magnus Cup playoffs, with all series contested in a best-of-seven format, the remaining 4 teams play a 6-game round-robin, at the end of which the last-place team is relegated. The Magnus Cup champions qualify for the following seasons Champions Hockey League, conversely, a citizen of France who was fully trained in a foreign country will count as an import regardless of his French citizenship. The Ligue Magnus is considered a mid-tier European league, the International Ice Hockey Federation ranks it below the Central European Erste Bank Eishockey Liga or the Norwegian league, but ahead of the Dutch and British leagues. Select games from the season and championship series are broadcast on LEquipe. All league games can be watched online in their entirety, live or delayed, the service is managed by Finnish company Fanseat. Hockey Dangles 16, Saxoprint Magnus Edition, a mobile video game based on the league, has been released for Android. Its launch coincided with the opening of the 2016-17 season, on December 22,2013, Grenoble and Briançon played an outdoor regular season game at Stade des Alpes, the home of former Ligue 1 soccer club GF38. A sellout attendance of 19,767 set a league record, another outdoor game took place on December 30,2016, when Lyon hosted Grenoble at Parc OL, the home field of seven-time Ligue 1 champions Olympique Lyonnais. The event drew a heavily papered 25,182 fans, which was touted as a new record. French ice hockey federation Ligue Magnus Results

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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks

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Chamonix HC
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Chamonix Hockey Club is a French ice hockey team based in Chamonix that last played in the Ligue Magnus in 2015. The team is known as Chamois de Chamonix. With 30 championship titles, Chamonix is the most successful French club, the team was founded in 1910. In the 2010, the club celebrated its 100th birthday, in 2016 the team merged with Pingouins de Morzine-Avoriaz to form the Pionniers De Chamonix-Morzine

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Ducs d'Angers
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The Association des Sports de Glisse dAngers is a French ice hockey team based in Angers playing in the Ligue Magnus. The team currently use the name of Les Ducs dAngers, the teams mascot is an eagle-owl, or grand duc in French, but its name is primarily intended as a reference to the prestigious Dukes of Anjou lineage. The team was founded in 1982 and plays games at the Patinoire du Haras. The Team has never been French champion, but won the French cup in 2007 and 2014, saturday, April 3,2010 - Angers defeated the Briançon Red Devils on the road,3 games out of 2, in the Best of 5 game semifinal series. Angers reached the Magnus League Championship for the first time in team history, Angers and Rouen set to face each other in the Finals. Angers had a chance at redemption after losing at Rouen 7-0 in the Quarterfinals of the French Cup, on Tuesday, monday, April 6,2010 - Angers, on the road, won at Rouen 2-1. Tuesday, April 7,2010 - Angers took a 2-0 lead in the 2nd Period of the game, Rouen started the 3rd Period with a quick goal to bring them within one. Angers quickly responded and scored again, putting themselves up 3-1, and desperation set in for Rouen as they too responded quickly scoring, making it 3-2 Angers. Angers responded several minutes later making it 4-2, Angers never looked back from there. Friday, April 9,2010 - Les Ducs looked tired and were down 3-0 and they battled back and made it 3-2 but would eventually fall 4-2. Saturday, April 10,2010 - Angers did not show up to match and lost their second. Tuesday, April 13,2010 - It was 1-1 after two periods of play, Rouen went on to score 3 more in the third period and Angers added one more. The Ducs ended their bid to be champions of France, failing to win it all with their three opportunities to bring the Cup home, formidable foe Rouen, who ousted the Ducs in the 09-10 Magnus League Championship in three consecutive games. On January 30,2011, the Ducs would travel to Bercy to face the Dragons, Rouen took an early lead going up 2-0 after 1 period of play. In the 2nd period, Rouen would add two more and Angers adding one, after 2 the score was 4-1. The Ducs mounted a comeback, scoring 3 unanswered goals in the 3rd period, however Angers once again fell victim to the Dragons in overtime, losing 5-4

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LHC Les Lions
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Lyon Hockey Club is the ice hockey team of Lyon, France. The team currently competes in the French Ligue Magnus, on July 13,2014, it was announced that The Lions would be an official partner of the NHLs Tampa Bay Lightning and the AHLs Syracuse Crunch. Ice hockey was played in Lyon as early as 1898 on a rink located on the Boulevard des Belges where today the Guimet Museum stands. The Sporting Club de Lyon won the national Coupe Magnus title in 1905 and 1908 but the rink was converted to a museum in 1909 and Lyon was without a rink and a team for the next 44 years. In 1953 the Club des Patineurs Lyonnais was founded and in 1956 the Lyon team won Frances Division 1 ice hockey championship, in 1963 CPL built the Patinoire Charlemagne that still today serves as the home of Lyon ice sports. In their new home CPL won Frances Division 2 ice hockey championship in both 1972 and 1989, Christophe Geoffroys management forces the CPL to the liquidation in 1997 Following the collapse of CPL local businessman Christophe Geoffroy founded Hockey sur glace lyonnais Elite. Teamed with the Lyon Hockey Club Association, an association charged with developing junior ice hockey, the new team experienced quick success and twice finished third in Frances Ligue Magnus in 1997 and 1998. LHC qualified for Europes Continental Cup in 1999 and reached the finals before being eliminated. By 2000 LHC had been relegated to Frances Division 3 championship, in the 2001 season Lyon reached and won the Division 2 championship and earned a place in Division 1 for season 2002. A poor season in 2002 saw the return to the second division once again and, despite reaching the final in 2007. The logo of the LHC features a red head of a lion in profile on a background with the name of the team above. Red, white and blue are both the colours of France and the colours of the city of Lyon, the LHC play in red, blue, black and white jerseys. The jersey has changed in recent years from a white jersey in season 2006 to predominantly red in season 2007. The front of the features a stylised image of a lion and bears the logo of the LHCs major sponsor. The jerseys are provided by equipment sponsor Nike Bauer, LHC media partners include Télé Lyon Métropole, the Tribune de Lyon and Virgin Radio. LHC matches are a feature on Télé Lyon Métropoles Sunday sports review. LHC players are also interviewed frequently for other TLM programs including Lundi Sport, the Tribune de Lyon produces a pre-season guide to the LHC each year and reports on matches each week. As well as reporting on LHC matches Virgin Radio provides the music for matches

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Dragons de Rouen
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Rouen Hockey Élite 76 is a French ice hockey team based in Rouen playing in the Ligue Magnus. The team is known as Dragons de Rouen. The team was founded in 1982 and plays games at the Île Lacroix. Rouen won its first French league title in 1990 and then appeared in 7 consecutive finals, during that era, the club enjoyed much success, participating in European tournament, and winning the Cup of the European Leagues in 1996 and the Atlantic league in 1995 and 1996. Rouen had less success in the part of the 1990s. The team won another 8 French league titles in 2001,2003,2006,2008,2010,2011,2012 and 2013. During the 2005-2006 season, the team achieved the feat of being unbeaten, winning all of their regular season matches except one tie. With 14 titles, Rouen is the city with most elite championship titles trailing only Chamonix and Paris